Sentence examples for the congress opened from inspiring English sources

As the Congress opened, on Friday, they were loaded on a bus and taken to a wire factory.

L'Humanité, the former official Communist newspaper that retains close links with the party, managed to remain upbeat as the congress opened.

Last week, the day after the congress opened in Beijing, Ms. Pillay said she was disturbed by "continuing allegations of violence against Tibetans seeking to exercise their fundamental human rights of freedom of expression, association and religion".

The Congress opened on a nostalgic note with a traditional Soviet-style military parade celebrating the 50th anniversary of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, when Cuban exiles backed by the CIA attempted to invade.

The congress opened last week with a warning from the union's leader, Pintile Davids, that the slow pace of land reform could produce another Zimbabwe, where hundreds of white-owned farms have been seized by self-styled liberation war veterans with the support of President Robert Mugabe's government.

As the congress opened its annual session, Premier Li Keqiang announced a growth target of 7.5% and revealed plans to raise China's defence budget by 12.2%.

It said China needed to adapt, "giving more respect to the will of the people in making policies will continue to be a challenge for the CPC", adding, "when the congress opens, people inside and outside China should closely watch the country's new leaders, as what they say and do may signal the beginning of great changes in China and the rest of the world".

Factional struggles before the party congress opened the way for a national debate over state-owned enterprises.

When the 18th party congress opened last Thursday, the three generations took their places at the front of the dais in Beijing's Great Hall of the People.

Three days later, a bomb, thought to have been planted by the Islamist Shabab militia, went off outside parliament, killing one person.Bye-bye, Mr HuThe 18th Chinese Communist Party congress opened in Beijing.

The patron was King George VI and the congress was opened by the Duchess of Kent.